About Intel

Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) innovation in cloud computing, data center, Internet of Things, and PC solutions is powering the smart and connected digital world we live in. You may know them for their processors, but they do so much more. Intel invents at the boundaries of technology to make amazing experiences possible for business and society, and for every person on Earth.

Harnessing the capability of the cloud, the ubiquity of the Internet of Things, the latest advances in memory and programmable solutions, and the promise of always-on 5G connectivity, Intel is disrupting industries and solving global challenges. Leading on policy, diversity, inclusion, education and sustainability, they create value for their stockholders, customers and society.

The Intel® Optane™ SSD 905P is designed for the most demanding storage workloads, delivering high random read/write performance coupled with ultra-low latency and industry-leading endurance. Built with Intel Optane technology, a revolutionary class of non-volatile memory, the Intel Optane SSD 905P is empowering everyone from enterprise users to university researchers to extract greater platform performance.

While the SSD 905P comes in U.2 or HHHL (half-height half-length) expansion card form factors like its workhorse predecessor in the 900 family, it doubles the storage capacity to 480GB and 960GB, respectively. Plus, the SSD 905P provides an industry-leading 10 DWPD, making it the highest endurance SSD in the market today.

Professionals with the most demanding storage workloads and largest data sets can now tackle even bigger projects with no worry – and no angst about the hassle of frequent drive replacements.

The performance, resilience and responsiveness of the SSD 905P means the processor can spend less time waiting and more time computing, resulting in greatly increased efficiency.

The Intel® SSD DC P4500 Series—a member of the Intel 3D NAND SSD family—delivers an all new design to support cloud storage and software-defined infrastructures. The Intel SSD DC P4500 Series is combines high performance, capacity, manageability, and reliability to help data centers fast-track their business. To meet data center’s exacting needs for growing capacity, easy serviceability, and thermal efficiency, the DC P4500 is now available in the revolutionary “ruler” form factor.

The “ruler” form factor, so-called for its long, ruler-like shape, shifts storage from the legacy 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factors that follow traditional hard disk drives – and the add-in card form factor, which takes advantage of PCIe card slots – and delivers on the promise of non-volatile storage technologies to eliminate constraints on shape and size. The form factor delivers the most storage capacity for a server, with the lowest required cooling and power needs. The next-generation “ruler” form factor SSDs using Intel® 3D NAND technology enables up to 1PB in a 1U server – enough storage for 300,000 HD movies, or about 70 years of nonstop entertainment.

Intel: World-Class AI Systems and Solutions

Early adopters of artificial intelligence (AI) across industries and organizations are uncovering significant breakthroughs based on deep information within data. AI is paving the way to solve highly complex medical challenges, advance scientific research, and better predict events and human behavior. Intel has the industry’s most comprehensive AI building-block ecosystem – from hardware infrastructure and interconnect technology to far-ranging AI platforms, development software and an unparalleled global partner network; uncommon assets that together deliver increasingly extensive capabilities and genuinely inventive approaches for today’s AI applications and tomorrow’s even more complex AI ambitions.

Intel AI Portfolio

Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors

Intel® Nervana™ Neural Network Processor (NNP)

Intel® FPGA

Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ VPU

Intel® Saffron™ AI Solutions

Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors

Powerful silicon to handle the broadest range of AI workloads, including deep learning.

Operate More Efficiently. High-speed Integrated Intel Ethernet (up to 4x10GbE) helps reduce total system cost. It also lowers power consumption and improves transfer latency of large storage blocks and virtual machine migration.

Intel® Nervana™ Neural Network Processor (NNP)

A New Class of Hardware that is AI by Design

A new architecture built from the ground up for neural networks, the Intel® Nervana™ Neural Network Processor (NNP) provides the needed flexibility to support all deep learning primitives while making core hardware components as efficient as possible. The NNP is designed to eliminate the limitations imposed by existing hardware not explicitly designed for AI.

To solve a large data problem with a neural network, it is necessary for the designer to iterate quickly on different possible neural networks using large data sets. There are multiple important factors to achieve this, including:

maximizing compute utilization

easily scaling to more compute nodes

doing so with as little power as possible

The NNP architecture provides innovative solutions to these problems and will give neural network designers powerful tools for solving larger and more difficult problems.

Some of the many AI-acceleration benefits provided by the Intel Nervana NNP include:

Blazingly-fast Data Access. The Intel Nervana NNP leverages high-capacity, high-speed High Bandwidth Memory to provide the maximum level of on-chip storage and blazingly-fast memory access. It utilizes separate pipelines for computation and data management, making new data available faster.

High Degree of Numerical Parallelism. To achieve higher degrees of throughput for neural network workloads, Intel created Flexpoint, a new numerical data format for the Intel Nervana NNP that delivers higher speed and higher compute density than conventional numerical formats. Flexpoint enables a vast increase in parallelism on a die while simultaneously decreasing power per computation.

Achieve New Levels of Scalability. Designed with high speed on- and off-chip interconnects, the Intel Nervana NNP enables massive bi-directional data transfer distributed across multiple chips. This makes multiple chips act as one large virtual chip that can accommodate larger models, allowing customers to capture more insight from their data.

At Intel’s AI DevCon hosted in San Francisco, Intel announced that it will launch its first commercial NNP product offering, the Intel Nervana NNP-L1000 (i.e., “Spring Crest”), in 2019. The company anticipates that the Nervana NNP-L1000 will achieve “3-4 times the training performance” of its first-generation Lake Crest product.

At the conference, Intel also asserted its support for bfloat16, a numerical format being adopted industrywide for neural networks, in the Intel Nervana NNP-L1000. Over time, Intel will be extending bfloat16 support across all of its AI product lines, including Intel Xeon processors and Intel FPGAs. This is part of a cohesive and comprehensive strategy to bring leading AI training capabilities to Intel’s silicon portfolio.

Intel® FPGA

Intel offers an expansive range of FPGA devices – from the high performing Stratix series to the flexible MAX 10.

Stratix® Series The Stratix Series of FPGAs and SoC FPGAs is optimized for the most demanding systems where performance is paramount. Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs are the latest product within the Stratix family. Fabricated on Intel 14nm Tri-Gate technology, Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs offer industry-leading capacity, performance, and architectural innovation for the most challenging computing, signal-processing, and software-defined networking applications.

Arria® Series The Arria Series of FPGAs and SoC FPGAs deliver a balance of performance and power efficiency. Arria 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs are the latest product within the Arria family. Arria 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs at 20 nm feature a unique combination of speed, DSP performance, capacity and power efficiency, and are the only 20 nm FPGA to integrate an embedded processor system.

MAX® Series The MAX Series of programmable logic devices features a non-volatile architecture and provides a mix of low cost and low power. MAX devices are broadly used for general-purpose and power-sensitive designs in a wide variety of market segments to perform functions that include I/O expansion, interface bridging, power management, and FPGA configuration control. MAX 10 FPGAs are the latest product within the MAX family, delivering a unique blend of small footprint, instant-on operation, and FPGA flexibility, including more than enough capacity for soft CPU cores.

Cyclone® Series The Cyclone Series of FPGAs and SoC FPGAs are optimized for low-cost, high-volume systems. Cyclone V FPGAs and SoC FPGAs deliver capacity, performance, and IP ideal for the majority of embedded applications used in the industrial and automotive markets.

Enpirion® The Enpirion product line offers the industry’s most compact, energy-efficient, and sophisticated DC-DC converters for meeting the power requirements of FPGAs. When power rails demand programmable on/off, fast transient response and extra-low noise, Enpirion devices go where no switching regulator has gone before.

Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ VPU

In March of 2018, Microsoft introduced Windows ML, which enables developers to perform machine learning tasks in the Windows OS. Windows ML efficiently uses hardware for any given artificial intelligence (AI) workload and intelligently distributes work across multiple hardware types – now including Intel Vision Processing Units (VPU). The Intel VPU, a purpose-built chip for accelerating AI workloads at the edge, will allow developers to build and deploy the next generation of deep neural network applications on Windows clients.

The Intel Movidius Myriad X VPU is the industry’s first system-on-chip shipping with a dedicated neural compute engine for hardware acceleration of deep learning inference at the edge. By coupling highly parallel programmable compute with workload-specific hardware acceleration, and co-locating these components on a common intelligent memory fabric, Movidius achieves a unique balance of power efficiency and high performance. The Windows ML and Intel VPU combination has the potential to enable more intelligent customer applications and core OS features, such as personal assistants, enhanced biometric security, smart music, and photo search and recognition.

Intel® Saffron™ AI Solutions

Cognitive and machine-reasoning systems for associative learning

With associative memory learning and reasoning at its core, the Intel Saffron AI Quality and Maintenance Decision Support Suite identifies connections, patterns and trends across data sets to build transparent and auditable recommendations that drive faster and more confident human decisions.

Freed from the constraints of traditional training models, it learns from highly variable and even incomplete data. Both structured data from enterprise systems and unstructured text written by employees, partners and customers are ingested as they come in, delivering fast insight without the need for long test-learn-deploy cycles.

The suite is comprised of two software applications:

Similarity Advisor. Find the closest match to the issue under review, across both resolved and open cases, identifying paths to resolution from previous cases and surfacing duplicates to reduce backlogs.

Classification Advisor. Automatically classifies work orders into pre-set categories, regular mandated or self-defined, to speed up and increase accuracy of reporting and improve operations planning.

One of the best features of the Saffron™ AI Solutions is that it offers wide range of applications for a diverse slate of industries, from manufacturing and aerospace to software development and financial services.

Scientists, engineers, and data analysts need ever-increasing performance from advanced computing solutions to speed time to results, handle unprecedented data volumes, and improve the accuracy and precision of their applications. Intel® architecture is designed to address the heavy demands of high performance computing at every level making them one of Advanced HPC’s Elite Partners.

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